Kelsey's Word of the Day

Word--Disgust
synonyms: nauseate, sicken; abominate, detest, displease, offend, repel, repulse, revolt; disrelish, distaste, loathing, nausea; abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, aversion, detestation, dislike, repugnance, revulsion.

Written above is every verb and noun describing how I felt after the San Jose/Edmonton Hockey game start last evening.
My disgust has nothing to do with the hockey teams themselves, but with the San Jose fans.
Before the puck drops at a NHL hockey game, it is custom to play the national anthem of the country from which the teams are from. If its two American teams, they play the American national anthem. Seeing as there was one American team, and one Canadian team playing last night, they played both anthems. To my complete shock and horror, the entire arena, filled with Shark loving Americans, booed and hissed O' Canada.
Never EVER have I witnessed something that so made my blood curl. The disrespect they showed made my stomache heave.

Being the huge hockey fan that I am, I had the priviledge of attending a few Canucks games this past season. One of these games was against our arch rival, the Avalanche. Yet, when the Star-Spangled Banner began to play, everyone in the arena stood, and listened to it. No boos, No jeers. You might argue, this was a regular season game, not a playoff game, the mood was different. I say differently. The tension between our two teams was HUGE and overshadowed any rivalry between the Oilers and the Sharks.

So why did they do it? Why show that kind of disrespect? What about the Canadians that play for the Sharks? Joe Thornton?? The ONLY reason the sharks are even in playoff contention is because he's playing for them. I wonder how he felt about his fans booing his country. It might have had a little something to do with his abysmal performance throughout the game. Rivalries are between teams, not countries. Those fans can only be described as ignorant, arrogant, and rude.
Which brings me to my second word of the day: Rude--Coarse, crude, ill-formed, artless, barbarous, boorish, clownish, ignorant, illiterate, loutish, raw, savage, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, undisciplined, unpolished, ungraceful, unskillful, vulgar; awkward, churlish, illbred, impertinent, impolite, impudent, insolent, insulting, uncivil, and uncourteous...... In other words: Every booer in that arena, you insulted me, all Canadians in that arena, and every one of us that call Canada our nation. You are rude and every one of its synonyms.